[ADVANCED-DOTNET] HttpChannel + FormsAuthentication

[Rodrigo B. de Oliveira]

Is this possible at all? I'm inclined to think that it's indeed possible but
not without some messing around with custom channel sinks or whatever :-)

I'm developing the administrative front-end for a website and I'd like that
application to be winforms instead of webforms. The only problem is getting
this FormsAuthentication+HttpChannel thing to work. I know I could put this
to work by using asp.net webservices and setting a CookieContainer in the
client proxy but I'd rather stick to the full type fidelity .net remoting
gives me.

Well, right now I'd be a very happy developer just by getting the following
simple scenario to work:

<snip description="server">
using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;

namespace Research.HttpChannel
{
 public class Server : MarshalByRefObject
 {
  public void Login(string username)
  {
   FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(username, true);
  }

  public void Logout()
  {
   FormsAuthentication.SignOut();
  }

  public string ServerString
  {
   get
   {
    string username = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name;
    return "Hello, " + username + "!";
   }
  }
 }
}
</snip>

<snip description="client">
using System;
using Research.HttpChannel;

public class Application
{
 public static void Main(string[] args)
 {
  string uri = args[0];
  Server server = Activator.GetObject(typeof(Server), uri) as Server;

  server.Login("bamboo");
  Console.WriteLine(server.ServerString);
  server.Logout();
 }
}
</snip>

Any chance of getting the client proxy to remember the cookie set by the
server?

Thanks in advance for any help,
Rodrigo